Quiet, Quiet...
Trauma is a natural response of the body to a threatening situation, which results in a lasting change in the psychological functioning of an individual. The psychological integrity is shattered due to repression – the separation from the whole experience – of emotions that are too difficult to process. The inability to express the unimaginable causes the energy of the repressed memory to be stored in the body, and it will return until it finds an outlet in a coherent narrative that gives meaning to the suffering experienced.
The presence of one adult who becomes a witnessing and understanding figure of the experience can stop the process of trauma embedding itself into the victim’s bodily tissues.
„Quiet, quiet…” are the words I heard as a child from the adults when there was yet another outburst of aggression at home. What was meant to soothe and provide a sense of security paradoxically took it away for many years. The process of putting the story into words continues.
„Quiet, quiet…” are the words I heard as a child from the adults when there was yet another outburst of aggression at home. What was meant to soothe and provide a sense of security paradoxically took it away for many years. The process of putting the story into words continues.
